Today's Day in Rock Stories

Lemmy Kilmister's Long Awaited Solo Album Close To Release

Clapton was forced to cancel his Southern California concerts at the Forum last weekend under doctor's orders due to a battle with "severe bronchitis," according to a statement released by his camp.

Guitarist Billy Howerdel broke the big news to fans with the following statement, "We just signed a new record deal with BMG. Looking forward to sharing new music with you soon. New APC-2017!"

The fan captured video footage shows the singer slipping and falling into the photo pit in front of the stage as the group began their performance of the song "Mummy Dust."

Monahan told Radio.com a few weeks ago, ahead of the announcement he would be inducting them into the Rock Hall, that he is friendly with some members of the group and expressed his hope that former lead singer Steve Perry will reunite with the band during their induction performance.

The Sing Me Back Home: The Music Of Merle Haggard tribute concert will be taking place on April 6th in Nashville at the Bridgestone Arena and is billed as a "event taping".

Boyd explains the origins of the track in a new interview with ABC, "We were somewhere in England, and I overheard somebody say with a thick British accent, 'Oh, you're a nimble bastard, aren't you?'"

He goes on to explain that "bastard" was actually the first curse word that he learned as a child. "Over the years, it has lost its kind of spiciness, it's lost its sting, so to speak, for me. It's become one of those words that's almost, not meaningless, but it doesn't mean what the dictionary says it means when I use it 90 per cent of the time."

He discovered that wasn't the case across the pond. "In the U.K., the word 'bastard' still really means 'bastard,' and it's a bad word. They can't play it on the radio 'cause it's a bad word. And it's ironic because I heard the term 'nimble bastard' in the U.K., that's who taught it to me. And then now they're throwing it back at us by saying, 'We can't play this, because this is a bad word!'"

Entitled "Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 2004," the new package will be released digitally as well as physical versions on DVD plus 2CDs and Blu-ray plus 2CDs sets.

The group features Crowes veterans Rich Robinson, Marc Ford and Sven Pipien and the new self-titled album was produced by Robinson and features the last recordings from late Black Crowes keyboardist Eddie Harsch.

The band will be releasing the new album "Believe" on April 14th which was produced Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison at the band's recently-opened Sound Lab Studio.

They are currently offering an impressive array of bonuses for fans that preorder the album via their PledgeMusic page and the group will be celebrating the new release with live dates that will be kicking off with a two night stand in St. Paul, MN at the Palace Theatre on April 5th and 6th.

The three bedroom apartment faces the park, in the Essex House apartment block on Central Park South. When Bowie and Iman lived in the home, they had a panic room installed, but that has now been converted back into a master bedroom, reports The Guardian. In 2002, the couple moved to SoHo.

Now, the collection, which spans the folk star's six-decade career, is available to scholars at the Gilcrease Museum's Helmrich Center for American Research in Tulsa.

The compilation gathers tracks the singer-songwriter laid down during his brief period on legendary producer Bert Berns' label, including the original recording of Morrison's epic, 'Brown Eyed Girl." It can be preordered here.

Entitled "Time Chill, A Retrospective," the package will feature solo music that spans almost 20 years from Lamm's career. It's set to hit stores on June 2nd via Omnivore Recordings. We were sent these details:

The trek will find Coheed and Cambria performing their entire "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness" album during the special shows.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on April 11th in Seattle, WA at The Showbox and will be wrapping up on May 19th in Chicago, IL at the Aragon Ballroom.

The song's official video features a lighthearted, animated alien abduction where Auerbach competes in an intergalactic demolition derby and becomes an out-of-this-world superstar.

Auerbach recruited Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits to add a guitar part to the single. "I gave him no instructions -- just told him to do whatever he felt," Auerbach told NPR. "He sent it back two days later with that rhythm guitar part on it and it was perfect! And that guitar sound couldn't be mistaken for anyone else. I'm so grateful for his contribution."

That EP will be the first in a trilogy of releases that the group plans to unleash that will feature "visual components attached to each song" and will eventually culminate into a movie.

Vajra's Annamaria Pinna offered these comment about the new clip, "Like we did with our previous video for our single '3.14', we also did this video on a $0 budget, so we had to be creative in our scene choices, shots, location, edits, costumes and storylines.

By 1987, Prince was three years beyond the star-making phenomenon of Purple Rain, but it seemed like much longer. He was still a huge star, but some overly ambitious--or overly self-indulgent--artistic decisions put his status on music's A-list in jeopardy.

He'd followed the massive superstardom of the 1984 Purple Rain album, movie and blockbuster tour less than a year later with the decidedly different and dense Around the World in a Day, which was packed with psychedelic spirituality, and which featured just two hits, 'Raspberry Beret" and "Pop Life." At Prince's insistence, the album was marketed as minimally as the massive Warner Brothers Records machine would allow.

With 1986 came the arrival of the striking, minimalist full-length Parade. While lauded critically and instantly embraced by the Prince faithful, like its predecessor, the album spawned just one U.S. hit: 'Kiss" (although to be fair, it also has the classics "Sometimes It Snows in April" and "Mountains").

1986 also saw Prince take a popular and critical drubbing with the release of the movie Under the Cherry Moon. While the movie's soundtrack (the aforementioned Parade) was a success, the campy, black and white picture would earn a slew of negative 'accolades," include five awards at the following year's Razzie Awards. The film "won" Worst Picture (tied with Howard the Duck!), while Prince got the dubious honor of Worst Actor and Worst Director. Adding insult to injury, he also got Worst Original Song for "Love or Money."

The end of the Parade tour signaled the end of Prince's longtime band, the Revolution, with a chaotic show in Japan that would be the last time the classic lineup would play together.

Bad Man was one of the first tracks to be pieced together that would later contribute to 'REACTIONS'. Gavin brought in the main riff idea that was aimed toward the heavier sound we were looking for that would serve as an outlet- whether we realized it or not- for some of the things we were going through as a band, and as friends, at that time.

This is without a doubt the track that most explicitly describes the car accident we encountered in June of 2015 while on the road. We had just left Chicago- heading for a festival gig hosted by The Revivalists in Dayton, OH the next day; deciding on what late night food we would get- when suddenly a drunk driver rammed in to our trailer, flipping the van and trailer on the interstate. Scott Soder, a long time friend of the band, sat down with Ben and Gavin and put their recollection of the event in to lyric form. At the time (when he wrote these lyrics), it would be hard for me to open up to people about some of what we saw and how it affected us- both on a daily-basis, and for the rest of our lives. Having someone else take the initiative to "put in on paper" first really opened up that window for the outlet that we so desperately needed, and I don't think he could have done a better job re-telling the events.

Two lines really stick out to me lyrically on this one that, without fail, give me cold chills every time we play this song live:
"I saw the future like a nurse with a suture
In my rear-view I've never been so sure"
I know for a fact Ben was experiencing an impending sense of doom getting in to the van that night, and the wreck left me with glass in my back (to this day) as well as multiple procedures on my right elbow and ulnar nerve.

"Feeling colds chills 'cause I'm still here
Wasting time is the only thing I fear"
We were already a very diligent group of individuals, but something of this nature really puts everything in to perspective, and showed us just how precious every second of every day is.

When the time came to decide on a track listing for the album it was a no-brainer that this should be the one to open it up and let everyone know where we were coming from- both lyrically and musically. The ambient, more spacey, intro is something that originated organically live, but we were really excited to have a more precise approach with it in the studio. As I said, the main riff that Gavin bought in was truly a directional "steering of the ship" so it was only fitting that this was the first riff that you, the listener, heard on the album.

Coming from a progressive rock/fusion background, a few sections stick out to me musically as, well, just fun as hell to play if we're being honest. One being the "hook" riff which is in a 7/8 time signature and I get to do some slapping on with wet effects on the bass. I think all of us nerd out on some rocking harmonies so we were all freaking out when Ben and Gavin brought in the harmony section that features the Moog synthesizer and guitar. A lot of the music we grew up listening to had these cool dueling guitar melodies, but we like to put a little spin on it by replacing a second guitar with various synthesizers. The third section that is "ear-catching" to me is the bridge- which is kicked off by layered guitar, sporting suspended chords and massive octave effects. When Gavin showed me the idea it had an initial vibe of the band 'Yes', so I was all about it. The vocal melody I put over the chords felt natural from the get-go, and might have even been the first thing I sang because I just asked myself "What would Jon Anderson do?".

Overall, I think Bad Man is a great example of the direction we took the album; from where the title, 'REACTIONS', originated to the variety of musicality and emotions the album portrays in a (relatively) short amount of time.